Go
To Sleep:Everything but Wall
Street boosters see bond yields going even lower and staying there
for even longer. Don't tell the inflationistas. Sounding
Retreat:Shell
is looking for a few
adventurous folks to take over their Nigerian oil operations, for
only $15 billion. Give 'em a call.

Not
gonna Make War-mth No More:Russia has
warned Europe to consider that gas deliveries for the winter might
depend on their actions.Don't plan to spend New
Year's in Kiev. Logistics:
Some of the National Guard troops Rick Perry sent to the
Texas/Mexico border are resorting to local food banks because they
haven't been paid and the state is not providing meals. Guess Perry
hadn't heard the one about the army moving on its belly.

and
yes I said yes I will Yes:
California has ruled that only “an affirmative, conscious and
voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity"will serve as
consent. No may or may not mean 'no', but only 'Yes!' will mean yes. Goal
Setting:
Burger King will have to see a 6% drop in US sales before its
Canadian tax dodgerie will be unprofitable. Ready, Set, Go
elsewhere!

Because
I Said So: A
US District Judge in New York has ordered Microsoft to give US
prosecutors customer emails
stored in Ireland. Can
the long arm of the law actually reach all the way to Éire?

Friday, August 29, 2014

"The relationship
between those who are constantly watched and tracked, and those who
watch and track them, is the relationship between masters and
slaves." - Chris
Hedges

About
Inflation:
Interest rates on 30 Treasuries have fallen to 3.06%, which suggests
that investors do not see any inflation on the horizon.
In Europe rates have been creeping ever lower, with 10-year
German notes below 0.9% and even Spain (Spain!) borrowing money for
less than Uncle Sam. Must be something in the water. Another
Point Of View:
Responding to Obama's chest-beating, Angel Merkel noted that
“American cannot solve all the world's problems anymore.” For
extra credit, identify the last time it could. Or did.

Short
Form:
According to the UN's IPCC, global climate change is “severe,
pervasive and irreversible.” (And it may well temporarily result in
extreme
snowfalls.)

Leaky
Roof: The US
housing market 'recovery' is beginning to stall as supply increases
and sales
stall. Simple supply/demand suggests that house
prices will be heading lower. Again.

Counterattack:
France's new economy minister (replacing the silly fellow who
criticized austerity programs) wants to do away with the 35-hour work
week because unemployment has hit new record
highs. And somehow making those who have jobs work longer will
create new jobs... Money
For Nothing:
The 2012 Ron Paul's presidential campaign secretly paid one of
Michele Bachmann's campaign aides $73,000 to abandon her, join Paul
and badmouth Michele's chances. In that she never had a chance,
seems to reflect rather poorly on the Paul campaign's smarts. On the
other hand, they did appeal to the same fringe group...

Missing
Linkage: A
Pew survey
found that about 49% of Americans think the US messes with the world
too much, 30% think it doesn't interfere enough, and about 30% can't
find the world on a map.

Pot/Kettle:
President
Obama has blamed the
violence in Ukraine on the Russians. The speech was then sent to
Moscow, where Putin will read it to reporters tomorrow, blaming the
Americans.

Adaptive
Democracy: The
Pakistani army says that it will be the ultimate mediator between the
government (which holds office at the military's sufferance) and
opposition groups (which is everybody else).

Mirror,
Mirror:The
UN Security Council has
passed a resolution
that threatens sanctions
against anyone affecting the stability of Libya. Even citizens,
especially if they are trying to make it more stable.

Chickens,
Roosting:Nearly
all
of ISIS top leadership
were imprisoned by US
forces in Iraq in
places like Abu Ghraib.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Being a black man in the US
is as much a death sentence today as it always has been.

Non-Discrimination
Claws:The
US has begun surveillance flights over Syria, a prelude to attacks on
IS forces. But the White House insists that the US will “balance
strikes against the Islamic State with attacks on Assad regime
targets.” Kill them all, God will know his own.

On
the Western Front:
France's Hollande has turned the French economy over to the
Rothschilds while hoping that Germany will “soften”
its hard line on austerity measures. It seems that even Bernanke
now realizes the 2008 housing meltdown was worse
than the Great Depression and unfortunately, nothing
has been resolved since then. Bread
Eaten In Secret...
In a remake of the Romney private meeting audio
tape leak, a recording
of Mitch McConnell (Desperate-KY) promising in private to implement
extensive austerity programs if the GOP regains control of Congress
has surfaced.

Fox/Henhouse:
The ECB has hired Blackrock, the world’s biggest private hedge
fund which makes billions manipulating the market, to advise it on
how to manipulate the market. Professional
Qualifications:
Christine Lagarde has been formally charged with fraud and political
corruption. No, not as head of the IMF – fraud, corruption and
lying are part of the job description there. This is about the
qualifications for the IMF position she showed while France's finance
minister. Language,
Use Of: NATO is
planing bases in Eastern Europe in order “to counter Russia,”

Acts
Of War: In
Georgia cops tasered
a tired man 13 times to make him 'move along'. He died. In Ohio a
man was shot and killed inside a Walmart toy department for
holding a toy gun. Pay attention.

The
Cowards Way:
Ever wonder how many parents – mommies mostly – do not take their
kids to be vaccinated simply because they don't want to hear the
little brats cry?

Back
And Forth:
Australia's PM Tony Abbott is going to put religious chaplains in
state schools, while keeping secular representatives out. But he has
backed
off supporting the dumping of mine wastes on the great Barrier
Reef. Fairly
Unbalanced:
Outdoing FOX, the Washington Post says it will continue to publish
the incoherent ranting of global warming deniers on the op-ed pages,
along with astrologists, homophobes, advocates for human/unicorn sex
and supply side economists.

Asked
And Obvious:
Are the US markets rigged? Really, someone got paid to write an
answer to that one. Full
Frontal Nudity:
Robert Litt, who represented to CIA officers involved in the
rendition and torture programs, has been hired by the Senate to
decide how much of the Intelligence Committee's investigation into
those programs should be made public.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

“It
is no longer possible … to believe in the original dogma of
democracy,”WalterLippman

Whistling
Past The Graveyard:President
and
Chief Cheerleader Barack Obama
says
that the cynics are wrong and envious of the United States because
“Nobody else can do what we do.” Eavesdrop on everybody.
Invade countries at will. Export financial disaster. Kill people
anywhere at a moment's notice, by drone or professional thugs. He
also thinks the US is indispensable; a lot of people would like to
test that claim by dispensing with Washington and the Pentagon for a
few years. In his defense, presiding over the end of empire is a
bitch.

With
Friends Like These...
The Saudis are calling for all Arab nations to form closer ties with
Israel and to abandon Hamas. Is this one of those Sunni/Shia things,
or something important?

One
and Done:A
lot of attention has been paid to the suggestion from pediatricians
that middle and high schools start later, at least after 8:30 am.
Sorry, anything that messes with the school bus schedule simply isn't
going to happen.

Following
The Script:American
hedge funds and a complicit federal judge are sending
the Argentinean
peso to record lows and forcing an economic crisis on the country.
Qui bono?

Have
It Our Way:Burger
King is
doing a Walgreen's and moving to Canada to dodge taxes. With luck
the US customer response will be the same and they, like Walgreen's,
will have second thoughts. Or at least ask for the fries.

Goose,
Gander & Hubris:
Obama has authorized the US military to conduct aerial surveillance
over Syria in preparation for air strikes against ISIS. Syria
is not amused. But the US responds with shock and amazement that
the UAE
and Egypt flew air strikes in Libya. Remember when invading or
bombing another country was an act of war? Remember when starting a
war was Congress' responsibility? Nah, you're not that old.

Now
It Can Be Told:
The National Bureau of Economic Research has finally done the math
and shown that what we all knew was true all along has been true all
along: the
US has been losing jobs to China for a decade or more and US workers'
pay has declined due to the direct competition from cheaper Chinese
labor. Go global trade!

What
Could Go Wrong?About
100 Indian nationals who may have been exposed to Ebola in Liberia
are scheduled to arrive in Mumbai – the India's second largest
city. Sounds like a plan.

Smoke,
Fire?
Reports claim that the LAPD is refusing to provide information
concerning the deaths of two black men earlier this month. Fill in
the blanks.

Math
Minors:
About half of US parents think they can begin saving for their
offspring's college education when little Johnny is a freshman in
high school. They also think little Johnny is going to be President
one day, too. Matriculation:
Hawaii is purportedly the best place for women, Wyoming the worst –
after
the average college campus.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Revised
Version:
Remember when the US shared intelligence with Saddam? Back before
we killed him? Now we've given up (temporarily) trying to unseat
Assad and are supplying
Syria with intelligence info. Remember when we armed the
mujahadeen and they turned out to be al-Qadea ? How do you think
giving arms to the 'moderate' Syrian rebels (who are trying to unseat
Assad but promise not to use US weapons to do so) will turn out?
Remember the Three Stooges, before they went to work for the state
department?

G'way
Kid, Y'Bother'n Me:
French President Hollande has permanently grounded his latest prime
minister, Manuel Valls, after Valls' economic minister pointed out
that the
emperor had no clothes
austerity programs had not worked and should be abandoned. Instead,
Vall was abandoned. More
Of The Same:
In the last five years, the
volume of ice
lostannually
to
global warming has
doubled.

More
Of The Same, Too:Goldman
Sachs has agreed to pay $3.15 billion to get the FHFA investigation
into their systematic mortgage securities fraud go away, making sure
that no Goldman executives do.

Toil
& Trouble:
At more than 500 sites scattered along the edge of the continental
shelf from North Carolina to Massachusetts, methane is happily
bubbling up from the seafloor. Unexpectedly, of course, but don't
worry. Self
Serviced:If
your gas pump tells you to take your credit card into the station
(where the 50-cent candy bars are a dollar and the milk is $4.98 a
half gallon), get in your car and drive away. It's called serving
yourself, and not the credit card companies who think they can figure
out whether
or not it is you at the pump. They think they can figure out if
it is
really you out there at
the pump
based on something called the Transaction Advisor – which seems
to know
more about you than your ex-wife. And has decided that you are not
you. Maybe you should decide to shop elsewhere.

Friend
of A Friend:
Whenever you are told that some large government program or
initiative has 'failed', see who makes the most profit from that
failure. And also look for the unintended and unanticipated adverse
effects of either the program or its failure. Blowback. Like arming
the 'rebels' in Afghanistan. Or Syria. Or see which side the
Saudis, Kuwait and Qatar
are financing to identify which side is against Western
civilization in general. The
"war on terror, has demonstrably failed”. Which
may have been the plan all along; follow
the money.Quick
Count:
An unarmed teen in Kansas committed suicide by getting police to
shoot him 16 times. In California you can get arrested
for having bloodshot eyes. In
a South Carolina Wally-world a man was tasered
to the floor and then pummelled by two cops for resisting arrest.
A man discovered hiding in a shed was
tasered to death by Florida cops. All of which may
begin to explain Ferguson. Buying
The Bridge:
Christie cost NJ taxpayers $3.8 billion when he shifted state pension
funds to Wall Street in an effort to get Wall Street commuters to
forgive him for the bridge thing.

Monday, August 25, 2014

Pattern
Crimes:
The second largest source of income for the city of Ferguson, MO is
the $2.6 million it gathers from fines levied on its citizens for
parking, speeding, jay walking and the like. Ferguson is, of course,
a white-run black community where "86%
of vehicle stops involved a black motorist, who
is twice as likely to be searched as a white driver and also twice as
likely to be arrested. The average black household in Ferguson is
hit with three warrants a year, resulting in the loss of $300 to
fines and fees. And if you can't pay the fine or cover the fees, you
go to jail. Welcome to Ferguson, MO, where Michael Brown was stopped
for jaywalking.

Echo:
Israel's former national security advisor, General Giora Eiland
advocates cutting off all food and water to Gaza and starving 1.8
million Palestinians into submission. That such a blockade would
amount to a war crime is accademic, for the US is making sure the UN
does not take official notice of Israel's ongoing
crimes against humanity. Take
A Load Off, Fannie :The
Canadian Shield – geologically the northern part of North America –
is still rebounding after miles of ice
weighed it down during the last Ice Age. In a similar way, enough
surface water has evaporated from California that some parts of
California's mountains have been uplifted about half an inch in the
past 18 months. That's a lot of weight to lose – even if it's just
water.Hum along.

In
The Wings:
To some degree the housing 'recovery' is a mirage. A lot of
delinquent homeowners – 22 million of them - got their mortgages
modified under one program or another. Most of them had been
delinquent and about 70% of them will be again. But
the modifications temporarily took them out of the delinquency
column. A significant part of the slowdown in foreclosures was due to
the lenders and servicers getting caught fiddling with the
foreclosure paperwork and had to pretty much stop cheating, which
slowed the foreclosure rates significantly. Now they've worked out
(or covered up) the problems. Look
both ways before crossing.

"Illusory
Promises":In
Texas, if your boss tells you not to worry about your job, worry.
The state Supreme Court has ruled that it is perfectly all right for
employers to lie to their employees.

No
Desert, Either:
“Of all the self-interested scams perpetrated by school
"reformers" against public education, the school voucher
scam may be the most dishonest. In their undiluted form, these
programs are a sop to right wingers and religious fanatics convinced
that teaching children that the Founding Fathers were all upstanding
Christian gentlemen and evolution should be doubted somehow prepares
them for life in the 21st century. [The legislature] is seeking to
push at-risk students...into nonpublic schools in order to avoid the
cost of providing them a sound, basic education in public schools. -
Judge Robert Hobgood, who found North Carolina's 'Opportunity
Scholarship Program' to be "unconstitutional beyond a
reasonable doubt." Relocation:
Tony Abbot's
troglodytic campaign of environmental rape has spread from the Great
Barrier Reef to Peru, where new laws have been passed giving mining
companies the right to despoil the land, the air and the water in any
way that's profitable. To ensure their unimpeded assault on the
country's environment the the
government has granted wide powers to the police to quell
any eco-protest. Amusingly, Peru will be the host of the UN Climate
Change Conference.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

First
Causes:
“...the most inhumane thing of all, the inhumane thing that
happened before the rage began to rise, and before the backlash began
to build, and before the cameras and television lights, and before
the tear gas and the stun grenades and the chants and the prayers. I
keep coming back to the one image that was there before the
international event began, before it became a television show and a
symbol in flames and something beyond what it was in the first place.
I keep coming back to one simple moment, one ghastly fact. One image,
from which all the other images have flowed. They left the body in
the street. Dictators leave bodies in the street. Warlords leave
bodies in the street. A police officer shot Michael Brown to death.
And they left his body in the street. For four hours.”

Long
Time Coming:
Suddenly there's a spate of articles pointing out the austerity
inspired recovery in the eurozone is actually a depression, possibly
worse that the Great Depression, and that the
leadership continues to do exactly the wrong things, guaranteeing
things'll get a lot worse before the revolt arrives. Roots
of Inequality:Inequality in America
is greatly a result of the long term effects of race and slavery –
and wealth is the least of the inequalities. Long/Short:
Here's a long article on 'Why the Middle Class Doesn't buy the
Recovery'. Save yourself some time: The middle class doesn't buy
the recovery because it hasn't seen the recovery. Their incomes are
lower now than before the recovery started, which is a neat trick,
done with smoke and mirrors. In total, adjusted for inflation,
Americans are worse off than they were 14 years ago. First
Person, Plural:
Think what this story would be like if you were black, young,
unemployed.

Flim
vs Flam:The
BofA $17 billion 'settlement' follows
the pattern set by previously pardoned miscreants. While $10
billion of it is cash, that will result in a $4 billion tax write-off
for the bank, and the odds are that much of the $7 billion in
'consumer relief' will be in the form of tax-reducing write-offs
also. And, as previously, no one goes to jail, no one loses any
bonus money for “misleading
investors about the quality of loans” it was selling. That is,
for committing serial securities fraud for years. Beats robbing
convenience stores. Easy
One: Why are
most economists more enthusiastic about 'free trade' than the general
public? Because they have not lost their jobs or been forced to take
a cut in pay. Besides, the theory conforms to their religion. Damper:
One of the
reasons that the number of new claims for unemployment is falling has
nothing to do with a decline in the number of people losing jobs.
For various reasons, a growing percentage of those who have lost
their jobs simply do not go sign up for unemployment benefits. Either
out of hope, or despair.

Friday, August 22, 2014

On
The Street Where You Live:
How militarized are the cops in your town? Probably about the same
as the ones in Ferguson who strut around wearing more elite killing
gear than an average tactical squad on patrol in Kandahar. Equipped
with Kevlar helmets, gas masks, combat gloves, knee pads, urban
combat fatigues,
tactical body armor, semiautos strapped to their thighs, M4
semi-automatic rifles with “close-quarter-battle receivers” and
advanced combat optical gunsights, with at least 120 rounds of ammo,
these guys are looking for a fight. And if they don't find one,
they'll start one. Interesting, they can
afford all this lethal gear but can't
afford frills like
education and food security for the citizens they are serving and
protecting and arresting and killing.

Be
Afraid:
Australia's Tony Abbott took a break from screwing the environment to
warn Aussies that he had to impose stricter security laws in order to
prevent protests
against his heavy handed policies
terrorist beheadings.

Say
No Evil: When
an environmental scientists working for the Canadian government has
startling new information concerning global warming, she has to get
her boss' permission first. And her boss' boss' permission. And her
boss' boss' boss' permission. Repeat for a total on nine times,
until the departmental minister gets to say 'No!'. Meanwhile,
Canadians rely on US science for their news... about Canada.
Remember the good old days when Canada was more liberal than the US?

Comes
the Dawn: A
judge in North Carolina
has figured out that
the state's school voucher system is working as designed, benefiting
religious schools teaching creationism with public money.

Because
Competition:AGOP FCC
commissioner wants to prohibit cities from providing broadband
services to their citizens, because they can do it for a lot less
than the commercial firms are
used to stealing.

Parts
Is Parts: The
headlines, and the stories behind them, are claiming that 'the pause
in global warming' could last another decade. Listen up: There has
been no 'pause in global warming'. There has been a pause in the
warming of the atmosphere as the deep oceans sop up most of the
additional heat caused by the increase in atmospheric CO2. The
waters warm far slower than the land and the air, but once they have
the heat, they will hold it
for centuries. This is not a good thing. And the oceans are the
largest part of the globe. Don't panic, the heat'll get here.

Give
Piece A Chance:
In Ferguson, the right of the people to assemble is good for five
seconds. Then the cops arrest them for loitering. There is a
“free-speech” zone, but you can't get there from here. Suspicion
Of Being Black:
During Mayor Bloomberg's 12 years in office, NYPD cops
stopped-and-frisked over 5 million people, 25% of them young black
men – a demographic that makes up about 2% of the NYC population.
The 5 million stops found illegal firearms 0.02% of the time. Reading,
Righting and Rat-a-Tat:
The school board in Compton, California will
be equipping itsschool
police officers with AR-15 rifles.

Nothing
Up My Sleeve...
Scientists report that 39 kilotons of carbon tetrachloride is being
injected into the earth's atmosphere every year even though none of
the ozone-depleting compound has been legally manufactured anywhere
in the world since 2007. Profits outweigh progeny.

See
No Evil:
Scotland Yard has warned that “viewing, downloading, or
disseminating” the video of James Foley's beheading “might
constitute
a criminal offence under terrorism legislation.”

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Perfection:The United States is
now using billions of dollars in weaponry and munitions to blow up
billions of dollars worth of weaponry and munitions that we left
behind in Iraq. Certainly increases the profit
margins. Snapped
Shots:In
Ferguson, a cop advises, “If you don't want to get hurt, don't
challenge me.” Presumably it was a different cop who told a
journalist to move along or “I'll
bust your head”. Other boys in blue (or urban camouflage)
arrested some German
journalists and some
other removed
Amnesty Intentional and media representatives from the area. Yet
another threatened protesters with an assault rifle and threatened
to”F*king
kill” them. Protecting
and serving. So
Much Explained:
“Because money matters more than people.” And not just at
Fukushima.

Summer
Reruns:“Bombing
Iraq” is back for another season, along with a revival of “Death
by Drones” which is broadcasting episodes shot in the Middle East,
Southwest Asia, and several slices of Africa. Make some popcorn,
it'll wait.

Lucy
And The Football:
Argentina has announced that it is tired of the vultures and isn't
going to play the game any more. It will pay “a certain amount”
to other investors, but is going to stiff the vulture funds that have
been trying to bankrupt the country. Cue the Marines. Inevitable:
Charter
schools are generally located at the intersection of money and
politics, which explains why the FBI is more and more frequently
investigating them for corruption.

Back-Dated: Australian security laws are being 'corrected' to make illegally
obtained evidence admissible in court. Seems the cops have been
tracking Aussie's
web browsing histories without
bothering to get a warrant. Who
Are These People?
Israel justified targeting the home of a Hamas leader and killing
his wife and baby son by comparing him to bin Laden and claiming “he
deserves to die...” and
his wife and seven-month old, just because they can?

Preview:
The US Supreme Court has sustained a stay on Virginia's same-sex
marriage rulings, which pretty well assures that the Nine will hear
some sort of consolidated same-sex case next year. 'Till
Death Do Us Part:In
the last decade over 300 SC women have been shot, stabbed,
strangled, beaten, bludgeoned or burned to death by their loving
spouses. The state is making no particular effort to prevent these
deaths. Elsewhere in SC a student has been arrested for writing an
essay about shooting
a dinosaur – which get more protection in SC than women.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Bombing people has not been as profitable as we were
told it
would be.Demetrius

Leaderslip:
Missouri's Lt Gov. thinks that the situation in Ferguson calls for
“Anglo-American justice,” not racial protests, while the state's
GOP head thinks having a voter registration drive during the civil
unrest is “disgusting”.
Others see a similarity between the violence in Ferguson and the
resistance
to apartheid in South Africa and suggest the state should take
some pointers from the way Egypt was able to enforce
decorum in Cairo. The real story is not about race, it
is about slavery and about
inequality. No matter what the underlying dynamics, shoplifting
is not supposed to carry the death penalty. Travel
Planning: A
volcano growing under an Icelandic glacier should be taken into
consideration as you plan your fall shopping trip to the continent. Headline$:The
US stock market rose on the prospect of reason prevailing in the
Ukraine and Dollar General gobbling up the competition, while housing
prices in London plunged sharply and Barclays
predicted a modest 1% gain for the S&P this year. House
prices fell throughout China as demand
dissolved. Bonus
Points: One of
the best things about being white is that your child has a much
smaller chance of being killed by a cop. From
The Sideline:Yale's Robert Shiller
says that “the
United States stock market looks very expensive right now,”
and points to his home-made CAPE ratio. During the last century the
ratio averaged about 15, and it now stands at 25 – a level that has
only been reached three times in the last 130 years: 1929, 1999, and
2007. Which, according to Shiller, makes this “an unusual period.”

Wages
of
War:War
is a huge money loser, at least war between nations. Civil wars in
the preindustrial world can be profitable and most often resemble
turf wars between competing criminal elements or are simply the
byproduct of a couple of international giants competing for local
resources, which is much the same thing. One reason the big boys
keep playing at war is that the leadership – George in Iraq and
Putin in Ukraine – simply can't or won't do the math. But more
often wars result from the domestic needs of the politicians.
Getting and keeping power trumps international peace.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Inquiring
Mind: What
makes you think that the clash between the poor and the police in St.
Louis is about race,
rather than the
continuing economic
slavery the descendants of slaves have been kept in for 125 years?
How long before the 50 million Americans who are poor realize that
being poor gives them more in common than the shades of their
skin divide them, that being poor is as big a crime as being black?
That united they would
be unstoppable? Maybe it starts in the #QuickTrip
People's Park.

Repeat
After Me: Suddenly we have a “skills gap” in the retail and restaurant
sector. Job openings are up 14.6% but hires are down 0.7%. Seems
that not just anyone can say “Want fries with that?” and press
the little picture on the screen.

The
Wages Of War
Sin: Israel
claims it has now destroyed the homes of the Palestinians suspected
of kidnapping and killing the three teens that Netanyahu
used as a pretext to kill thousands of Palestinians, maim tens of
thousands more and make a quarter million innocents homeless. Chalk
it up to collateral damage.

Fill
In The Blanks:
When drug companies
weigh research projects, they direct their R&D departments to
focus on maintenance drugs for conditions that a lot of middle class
and affluent people in the developed world have (or can be convinced
they have), that will be inexpensive to develop and can be marketed
at huge profit margins over decades. They have no interest in curing
a disease like Ebola that people quickly die from. Thus a
a deadly virus has been killing poor rural Africans for 36 years. Explain
This: Between
2010 and 2012, about 100,000 elephants were slaughtered in Africa by
poachers who only took only
their tusks. How many
erections did that gain for elderly Chinese gentlemen? Perspective:
This century's global warming will be determined by the fossil fuel
industry, not by methane bubbling up here and there in the Arctic.
It would take tens of millions of giant methane bubbles like those
seen in Siberia recently to make a significant impact. We should keep
our eyes on the smokestacks and exhaust pipes, that's what will do us
in.

Keeping
Score:During
2013, American police killed a black citizen every 28 hours. Austrangleia:
Australian Head Troglodyte is trying to crush the use of renewables
to hand coal and gas corporations an extra $10 billion, while he
approves dumping dredge
waste on the Great Barrier Reef after the dumper kicked
a piddling $150,000 into Abbott's party's pocketbook. Abbott
tells
would-be immigrants "don't migrate to Australia unless you
want to join Team Australia" by which he means sucking up to his
administration. Australia's largest
solar power project has bowed to the inevitable and abandoned its
efforts in the face of the administration's hostility to anything not
carbon-based. Yet
Germany, that hotbed of socialist industrial power, got 31% of
its electricity from renewable sources last month. Laundry
Bill: The law
firm that whitewashed Governor What Bridge? Christie is billing New
Jersey taxpayers $6.5 million for that magnum opus. Good thing he
didn't do anything else wrong. Right? Kinder,
Gentler:Authorities in the
Georgia county where
cops threw a flash-bang grenade into a baby's crib are refusing to
pay the child's medical bills. Do they think it'll cost them less to
lose the civil suit?

Our Motto

Keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.